apt module fails to install build-deps for source-only package

[whitequark]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

apt

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.1.1.0

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Running/managing on Debian jessie x86_64

SUMMARY

The tarsnap project provides only source Debian packages in a repository (i.e. a deb-src repository only). These can be installed with apt-get build-dep tarsnap but not the equivalent apt module invocation.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Reproducible with this task:

- name: add tarsnap source repository key
  apt_key: id=3DA2BCE3 url=https://www.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-signing-key-2016.asc state=present
- name: add tarsnap source repository
  apt_repository: repo='deb-src http://pkg.tarsnap.com/deb-src/ ./' state=present
- name: update APT cache
  apt: update_cache=yes
- name: install tarsnap build dependencies
  apt: name=tarsnap state=build-dep

EXPECTED RESULTS

Build dependencies of package tarsnap installed

ACTUAL RESULTS

fatal: [uruz.whitequark.org]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "invocation": {"module_args": {"allow_unauthenticated": false, "autoremove": false, "cache_valid_time": null, "deb": null, "default_release": null, "dpkg_options": "force-confdef,force-confold", "force": false, "install_recommends": null, "name": "tarsnap", "only_upgrade": false, "package": ["tarsnap"], "purge": false, "state": "build-dep", "update_cache": false, "upgrade": null}, "module_name": "apt"}, "msg": "No package matching 'tarsnap' is available"}                                                 

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[abadger]

@whitequark PR #5356 should fix this problem for you. I'll be merging it as soon as it passes our continuous integration tests.

@jvantuyl needs_contributor didn't work for you because this was a problem with the apt module, not apt_key. If github was sending you email about this I apologize... not sure why that would have happened; it doesn't look like you were CC'd explicitly in the comments. Also, hello! Been a long time since Engineyard.

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@abadger Thanks!